Google Allo to Get the Axe Soon, According to Sources

Currently, Android Messages uses traditional SMS, for the most part. According to 9to5Google, we can soon expect Google to announce the beginning of the end for the company's short-lived chat app. - Given Messages continued momentum, weve chose to stop supporting Allo to focus on Messages.

If youve been trying to access Allo today, you probably were upset to find that an outage wasnt letting messages go through and Google Assistant, which first launched on Allo, was not working either. No one expected Google to release yet another messaging app when they already had Hangouts. In 2017, the head of Allo left Google for Facebook, and shortly thereafter most of the Allo team moved over to Android Messages.

Google Allo vs. iMessage: Which one does it best? Indeed, Google vice president Anil Sabharwal acknowledged as much about eight months ago in an interview, saying that the company would be putting a pause on additional investment into Allo.

Duo, the video calling application, lives on as well and won't suffer the same fade as Allo.

William and Kate to make Christmas visit to troops
After handing the presents to members of 11 Squadron at RAF Akrotiri, William addressed them and said: "You all put duty first". Kate told her guests: 'William and I just wanted to pass on our huge gratitude to all of you here today.

Android Messages and Duo will be a two-pronged attack. After the update, VerizonPixel 3/XL users will be able to send larger text messages (up to 8,000 characters long), as well as see when their contacts are typing a conversation. The company promises they will continue to improve the service with features that utilize machine learning.

The blog post also mentions that Hangouts Meet and Chat will eventually become available to all users, and the company is "fully committed to supporting Hangouts users in the meantime". We don't know how these enterprise apps will change to accommodate regular users, but we'll know more when the time comes for Google to kill off Hangouts Classic. Those are the only phones on Verizon that'll get RCS for now, but Verizon does say that it plans to expand the feature to more phones "in the future".

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For the camera duties, the smartphone comes with an 8-megapixel sensor with f/2 aperture and 85-degree field of view at the front. Connectivity options include Dual 4G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, GLONASS and a USB Type-C port.

There was no immediate word on the condition of the rescued Marine or the others onboard when the collision occurred. A search and rescue operation is under way in Japan after an incident involving two US Marine Corps aircraft.

As in this case, the launch itself had been successful; that time, though, a lack of fuel resulted in a botched landing. It should reach the space station at the weekend. "...it just lands on the water.Then it sinks in and falls over".

This performance showed he has convincingly recovered from that, and he may even again prove the best heavyweight in the world. The 30-year-old Fury said: "Everybody said Ben couldn't do it and he'd fold under pressure". "I could see Wilder celebrating".

Dane Best was shocked when he found out that there was a ban on snowball fights in his town of Severance. The ordinance banning snowball fights dates back to 1921, according to the town administrator's office.

He said he hopes to take a two-track approach with Tokyo on North Korea, . something he says Japanese government will agree on. Trump's announcement suggests that the United States still wants North Korea to demonstrate tangible efforts to denuclearize.

They also met personnel from the lead infantry company of 2 Mercians, who have recently been supporting Op TORAL in Afghanistan. The British military base in Cyprus is now used for both reconnaissance and bombing missions against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Tom Cruise feels passionately about motion smoothing - that is, turning it off to enjoy his (and others") movies "properly'. Thankfully, there's a solution if your high-def TV has that feature, according to the screen idol and director .

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Jokic's triple-double leads Nuggets to sixth-straight win
Toronto's awful three-point shooting continued in the second - Miles connected on the only one of 10 that fell for the Raptors. Jokic replied with a hook shot, then on Toronto's final frantic possession, Danny Green missed on two three-point attempts.

Global shares slip on doubts over US-China trade deal
Small-company stocks, which investors see as more risky than large multinationals, fell more than the rest of the market. The Shanghai Composite index lost 0.5 percent to 2,653.54 and Australia's S&P ASX 200 dropped 1.3 percent to 5,641.10.

Around 90 mafia suspects held in global sweep
Eurojust, the European Union agency that coordinates cross-border crime fighting, announced the raids in a statement . Members of the notorious 'Ndrangheta Italian mafia have been targeted in a simultaneous police sting in Europe.